Vergas man on relentless search for Bigfoot

Mike Quast, of Moorhead, for decades has been pursuing the dark 6- to 7-foot figure he saw as a boy in 1976. The search for "Hairy Man" was recently featured on a Syfy channel episode of "Haunted Highways."

Ever since Mike Quast, of Moorhead, was an 8-year-old boy in 1976, when he spotted a mysterious 6- to 7-foot black figure walk into the woods, he has dedicated much of his life to searching for Bigfoot, the Fargo Forum reports.

Thomas Plotkin reportedly sprained his ankle and fell nearly 500 feet into a river while hiking in the Himalayas with an outdoor leadership program. A local leader says the search will continue for a few more days.

The city will pay more than $76,000 to a man who was strip searched in public and found with marijuana between his buttocks. Minneapolis' police chief says the officers involved did the right thing and will not be punished.

Franken is among the senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee who are raising concerns about Google's virtual monopoly of online searches. The company is accused of ranking its own services and companies higher than its competitors.

The official search for the body of a Minnetonka man in India has been called off. Dozens of people have looking for 20-year-old Thomas Plotkin since he fell from a trail above the Gori Ganga River last month.